Virginia Farmer Joel Salatin: Scaling by Creativity, Not Consolidation

Virginia farmer and author Joel Salatin brings a nontraditional lens to farm growth, resilience, and transition, shaped by his work at the 550-acre Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. A self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer,” Salatin argues that resilience comes from creativity and duplication rather than consolidation, using incremental change, diversified enterprises, and reimagined infrastructure to adapt to volatile markets andrising costs.